Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - ACARS Build 83 Available

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | ACARS Build 83 Available

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club

"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on January 21 2007 00:18 ET by Luke Kolin

I'm going to give Build 83 of ACARS a second try; I've made a few changes regarding check rides, and hopefully this build will work better than the last time we pushed it out. ACARS Build 83 is the latest version available in the Fleet Library.

In the past, a significant minority of people reported problems with the EXE not starting up properly. If you run into this with Build 83, please let me know and I'll do what I can to fix things. I'm certainly keeping 81 around, but we really do need to get the fixes in the current build into production.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on January 21 2007 22:28 ET by Luke Kolin

Since people are continuing to have problems with Builds 82 and 83, I have withdrawn both from the Fleet Library. There is an excellent chance that all ACARS 2.0 builds will be deprecated by February 1st.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA3432
First Officer, B777-200

Joined on August 07 2006
Century Club

"Mile High Blackout"
Aurora, CO USA

152 legs, 525.6 hours
43 legs, 139.8 hours online
101 legs, 431.8 hours ACARS
3 legs, 5.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 21 2007 23:13 ET by Mike Peterson

Luke thank you for all of your hard work in making a newer ACARS but i think we can all live with the old one for still quite some time.

Mike Peterson

First Officer, B777-200

DVA2169
Captain, MD-88

Joined on February 28 2005
50 State Club
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
US Capital Club
Stage 1 Jet Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

""What goes up, must come down!""
Loganville, GA

228 legs, 352.0 hours
219 legs, 341.1 hours online
191 legs, 304.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 22 2007 12:49 ET by Cleon Williams

Luke, I have been using Build 82 with no problems (I have learned its little quirks (smile)). I have not used the non-ACARS 2.0 version in a while. Have you included displaying the flight schedules in that version. I can do without all of the other features in ACARS 2.0, but, I really like being able to view the schedules in ACARS. I have actually had instances where I have wriiten down a flight number an hour before I flew and then checked again and it was gone. This feature allows me to view the schedule as I file my flight plan. I do hope eventually, that you can correct the ACARS 2.0 issues. I can imagine your frustration. I program for a living. I really did like the concept of the new features (Gauge, Fuel Planning and last but not least, The Flight Schedules). Thanks for all your hard work on ACARS. I, really appreciate it. I know how much spare time this consumes.

Cleon

Cleon Williams (DVA2169)

DVA3535
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on September 10 2006
US Coastal Club
Million Mile Club
Flying Colonel
Safari Club
50 State Club
Online Fifteen Century

Northeastern United States

1,959 legs, 3,746.6 hours
1,560 legs, 2,931.2 hours online
1,946 legs, 3,720.6 hours ACARS
7 legs, 12.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 23 2007 00:48 ET by Clarke Duarte

The fleet library has Delta Virtual ACARS build 75. Is this the correct one. It's the only one listed, so I downloaded it. Clarke (looking for the latest and greatest) Duarte smile

Clarke Duarte

Senior Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on January 23 2007 11:14 ET by Luke Kolin

Right now, Build 75 is the only officially supported version while I resolve some issues in the 2.0 codebase. If you already have 82 (or 83) and they work for you, great. If not, you may want to use 75.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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